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Behavioral ecology of sympatric tamarin monkeys, Deutsches Primatenzentrum (German Primate Center)

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Behavioral ecology of sympatric tamarin monkeys, Deutsches Primatenzentrum (German Primate Center)



Project Director: Eckhard W. Heymann

Contact Person: Eckhard W. Heymann , eheyman@gwdg.de , Phone: +49 - 551 - 3851 - 123 Fax: +49 - 551 - 3851 - 228 E-mail: eheyman@gwdg.de

Mailing address: Abteilung Verhaltensforschung & Oekologie, DeutschesPrimatenzentrum, Kellnerweg 4 , Goettingen , D-37077 Peru; Estacion Biologica Quebrada Blanco (EBQB)

Research Objectives: general: Behavioral ecology of tamarins specific: social organization and mating system social behavior and communication, particularly olfactory communication interspecific relations and niche differentiation in mixed-species troops predator-prey relationships feeding ecology and seed dispersal; comparative parasitology

Field Positions and Volunteers: currently not available

Species Studied: Saguinus mystax - moustached tamarin Saguinus fuscicollis - saddle-back tamarin

Other Species Found At Site: Aotus nancymae (night monkey), Cacajao calvus ucayalii (red uakari), Callicebus cupreus (titi monkey), Cebuella pygmaea (pygmy marmoset), Cebus albifrons (white-fronted capuchin monkey), Cebus apella (brown capuchin monkey), Lagothrix lagotricha (woolly monkey), Pithecia monachus (saki monkey), Saimiri sciureus (squirrel monkey)

Affiliations: German Primate Center, German Research Council

Project Begin/End Dates: 2/1994, ongoing

Web Site: www.dpz.gwdg.de/voe_page/index.htm

Entry created: never
Review requested: 2003-11-17
Entry last reviewed: 2002-04-18

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